The community is invited to once again join the 9th annual Okmulgee County Prayer Walk, which will be held Saturday. Aug. 2, beginning at 9 a.m.

The Prayer Walk will begin at Okmulgee High School’s Brock Gymnasium, where participants will gather before traveling to the various schools and colleges, and offer prayers on behalf of the students, teachers and staff – all for a successful and safe year.

When the event was first held, the motivating force behind the event, organizer Christy Parker, said she was driving to work when she received the idea to have the first prayer walk that took place in May.

“God laid it on my heart to post something on Facebook about having a prayer walk. He was speaking to me about it during my whole 30 minute drive and I ended up going ahead and posting a status about it,” Parker said. “My phone blew up with support from everyone who thought the county wanted and needed the event.”

Parker is a graduate of Okmulgee High School, and is familiar with the various issues that individuals in the county face.

“There is a lot going on, and so much tragedy and hardships happening in this town that were really weighing on my heart,” she stated back then.

Parker enlisted her brother Darren Downing and friends Pastor Marcus Jeffrey and Mike James for help.

Now, some nine years later, a pandemic, several tragedies around the county and even more trying times, the community is invited to once again participate in the event.

Stops on the list for the Prayer Walk include Okmulgee, Schulter, Preston, Beggs, Twin Hills, Wilson, Henryetta, OSUIT, GCTC, College of the Muscogee Nation, The Academy of Okmulgee and others.

For more information and updates on the event, please visit and message the Okmulgee County Prayer Walk. A City on Its Knees.